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Gibson Desert

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Gibson Desert

Arid zone, east-central Western Australia. Located south of the Great Sandy Desert, it constitutes Gibson Desert Nature Reserve and is home to many desert animals. It has an area of about 72,000 sq mi (186,000 sq km) and was named for Alfred Gibson, an explorer who was lost there in the 1870s.


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Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert
Filmed in the Gibson desert, the landscape is at once forbidding for European eyes and familiar to aboriginal eyes.
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